Lahaina – A Brief History

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Sometime around 1,000 AD Tahitian settlers sailed or rowed across two thousand miles of open sea In 1790 Kamehameha warrior king of the big island landed his log canoes at Hana came like wildfire over the mountains and laid total waste the town of Lahaina From then until now it survived whalers and missionaries and other white man’s blessings mostly intact until winds and wires and warming wiped it out

Picture of Lahaina harbor in the mid-1800s. At the height of the whaling industry there could be up to 100 whaling ships at anchor in the Lahaina roadstead.

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